POPULAR outdoors YouTuber Greg Ovens has been hit with a $6,000 fine after one of his videos was used as evidence of illegal fishing in a Canadian national park.

An arrest warrant has been issued for his co-host Zach Fowler for his part in catching and eating recently re-introduced ‘cutthroat trout’ in Alberta’s Banff national park

A judge branded the pair’s actions in the 2019 video as ‘reckless’.

Ovens and Fowler met on the TV show Alone – a US survival series on the History Channel – but reunited to make their own film on a 30-day survival challenge in the Canadian Rockies.

With three-quarters of a million subscribers to Owens Rocky Mountain Bushcraft YouTube channel, the video in question has attracted 400,000 views. However, one viewer alerted the Canadian authorities when the skilled bushcrafter hauls a three-pound fish from a fast-moving river and presents it to the camera declaring “that’s a nice cutty!”. He then impales the fish on a carrying stick before adding to the catch.

While trout fishing in the wilderness is a popular and perfectly legal pastime in Canada, the removal of cutthroat trout – considered a threatened species – from national park waters is against the law.

Ovens faced six charges – including unlicensed hunting and discharging a firearm in a national park – but five were withdrawn when the British Columbia native pleaded guilty to illegal fishing and agreed to a $6,000 fine.